Wednesday, 13 May 2015

Isle of Wight: index

In parallel with the Devon history subject list, here's another for the currently some 140 Isle of Wight posts on JSBlog. Like the Devon posts, they're a mix of walk photos, galleries from out-of-print travelogues, looks at at old novels, and a good number of detailed explorations of Isle of Wight historical and topographical subjects.2015

Alma Lee found - a correspondent identifies the real-world prototype for the wronged young woman central to Maxwell Gray's The Silence of Dean Maitland.

Spindler's list - the interesting career of the German industrialist and political activist William Spindler, who tried to develop St Lawrence as a town.Almost Fairyland - the hard-to-find 1914 book on Wight topics by John Morgan Richards, the American ex-pat businessman who retired to Steephill, near Ventnor.